NWSL Free Agency Explained

NWSL Free Agency Explained | National Women's Soccer League ...

Free agency is the ability of professional team athletes to change teams when their contracts expire.

2025 NWSL Free Agents | National Women's Soccer League Official ...

This allows eligible free agents to begin negotiations for their 2025 Standard Player Agreements. For more information on free agency: Free ...

NWSL free agency in 2023: How does it work? Who is eligible?

This year, the pool has expanded. Any player with at least five years of service and an expiring contact is eligible for unrestricted free agency, while any ...

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The National Women's Soccer League's 2025 free agency period under its collective bargaining agreement with the NWSL Players Association will begin on Sunday, ...

What's in the NWSL's new CBA? No draft and no surprise trades

What will free agency look like with the new NWSL CBA? ... All NWSL players will enter free agency at the conclusion of their current contracts. “ ...

Inside the NWSL's new CBA: Free agency, revenue sharing, more

Along with the elimination of the draft, full player agency is the biggest operational change to the NWSL from its historical roots. Free agency ...

The NWSL announces its initial free agency list under new CBA

While this free agency period is set to start in September, future free agency periods will align with standards elsewhere, meaning that free ...

NWSL grants unrestricted free agency to players, eliminates draft

The new CBA, announced Thursday, also raises the minimum salary from $48,500 in 2025 to $82,500 by 2030. Trinity Rodman of Washington Spirit ...

What to know about NWSL free agency. Plus, trades making a ...

Free agency can encourage clubs to renegotiate better contracts with players to keep them in-market, but in other cases there may also be ...

NWSL's new CBA increases player salaries, adds revenue sharing ...

The new agreement, which runs until 2030, eliminates the draft system, meaning the NWSL Draft and expansion drafts will no longer be held.

NWSL, players agree to new CBA: Draft eliminated, free agency ...

The NWSL Players Association and NWSL have announced a landmark new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that will, among many major changes, abolish the ...

Midge Purce and Sophie Schmidt are free agents – here's what that ...

Under the new CBA, the NWSL will implement unrestricted free agency for all players for the 2025 season. That means teams can only hold players' ...

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It's for players who currently play in the NWSL. Players who have been in the league for 6+ years and have an expiring contract (more on that ...

NWSL free agency becomes tool to keep league competitive in new ...

The league's free agency resembles the freedom of movement in other American sports leagues -- players first earn restricted free agency after ...

2024 NWSL free agency: What is it and how will ... - The District Press

For the first year of free agency, a player was required to have 6 or more years on an NWSL roster to be eligible. Beginning this year, players ...

NWSL and NWSLPA Agree to Historic Collective Bargaining ...

NWSL to eliminate draft, guarantee contracts and grant unrestricted free agency to all players. Alignment to global standards and term ...

NWSL, players agree on new CBA with no draft, expanded leave

Among the gains the players made are increased freedom of movement with total free agency upon the expiration of contracts, the elimination of ...

Official NWSL free agent tracker: Window is open following historic ...

The trade window closed on Aug. 30, and the current free agent list now includes all players who officially meet free agent status. After the ...

The NWSL and the NWSLPA announce new CBA - All For XI

Included in this new CBA is the elimination of the college draft, free agency for all, ending trades without player consent, guaranteed ...

How the NWSL cooked up the most pro-labor CBA in sports, explained

Not only did it eliminate the NWSL draft and allow rookies to start their careers with free agency, but it also gave them complete control of ...